With the 1966 publication of Radical Theology and the Death of God, a book he wrote with Thomas Altizer, Hamilton joined several
other young theologians in shaking the foundations of the American theological establishment.
On the other hand, the work of
other younger theologians like Schubert Ogden, in his book Christ without Myth and more recently (and admirably) in The Reality of God, has shown a way of employing the insights of a soundly based biblical hermeneutic within the context of a specifically process - thought understanding of the human situation and the world in which man's existence is set.
Not exact matches
And to speak in that fashion would be to say, with Dr. Paul Knitter of Xavier University in Cincinnati (one of the brilliant
young Roman Catholic process
theologians of our time), that we need to «recognize the possibility that
other «saviours» have carried out... for
other people» the redemptive work which as Christians we know in Jesus Christ.
One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a
theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and
other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its
young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.
And, as Marsden notes, what they described,
others celebrated, including a
young theologian soon to join Harvard's faculty.
Many
younger theologians have allied themselves with one side or the
other, but Placher recognizes the concerns and insights of both sides and seeks a via media between the two.